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Hong Kong prosecutors on Monday lost an appeal against a magistrate’s decision to clear media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying of intimidating a reporter from a rival newspaper four years ago. Lai, the 74-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, was found not guilty last year of one count of criminal intimidation , under which he was accused of verbally threatening an Oriental Daily reporter during a 2017 Victoria Park vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Verdict clearing Jimmy Lai of intimidating reporter ‘perverse’, prosecutors say On Monday, Mr Justice Andrew Chan Hing-wai of the High Court concluded the trial...